Published Resources Details
Journal Article
- Title
- The design of aircraft wings
- In
- Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
- Imprint
- vol. 9, no. 9, Aug 1937, pp. 299-312
- Description
This paper, No.606, originated in the Sydney Division of The Institution. The author, Sydney Clifford Robertson, BSc ME AMIEAust, is an officer in the Bridge Design Section, Department of Main Roads, N.S.W., and lecturer in Aeronautical Engineering Drawing and Design, Sydney Technical College, N.S.W.
[This paper was highly commended, by judges of the 1938 W. H. Warren Memorial Prize]
- Abstract
The paper presents an outline of the methods of determining the design loads in standard British practice, and the distribution of these loads over the wing span. Some different forms of wing bracing and detail structure are described. The stress analysis for simple types of wing bracing is dealt with and an indication of the methods employed in more complicated cases is given. The final criterion of strength, the proof load test, is described, and mention made of other tests and of the purposes and limitations of tests. Special requirements for the stiffness of wings receive some attention also. An example of a wing designed and constructed in Sydney and given a proof load test at the University of Sydney is described, including a critical examination of the design and the material and method of construction used in the light of this test and of subsequent tests.